Inkheart

Before I even talk about the movie, Inkheart, can I just say that $10.25 for a movie is crazy!? I didn't even buy any snacks. I'm sure that if I had, I wouldn't be able to buy groceries for a while.

I liked the movie alot. I wasn't sure I would, because when I started the book the movie is based on, it just didn't hold my attention. I really bought the book because the cover was pretty, and the subject reminded me of The Neverending Story, which is, like, a book lover's fantasy come true. What book lover doesn't want to be part of the story, and be friends with the characters?

Back to the movie, I really liked it, and not just because it has Brendan Fraser. The story is about a father and daughter who travel all over together. Everywhere they go, dad looks for a certain book. Apparently there are people who can read objects and characters out of books, and the dad is one of them. The tricky thing is that when something or someone is read out of a book, something from this world gets sucked into the book. Dad didn't know he had this talent when he was reading to his wife and daughter one night. Bad guys from the book came out, mom went in.

After nine years of searching, the dad finally finds the book that mom got read into, and that's where the adventure starts. The book he finds is destroyed, but they find the author of the book, discover that mom was read out of the book a year ago, without her voice, and have to go to the castle of the originally read out bad guy to save her - and daughter, who, it turns out also has the talent to read things into being.

I don't really want to summarize everything from the movie. I just want to say I enjoyed it and recommend it. Especially if you love books, want to share with someone the true adventure of books, or just like Brendan Fraser.

There is a really awful part of the movie. It involves a life's collection of books and cretins and fire. I can't say anymore. It's too painful. I'm sure you can imagine it.

I just have to ask though... why do movie makers and bad guys take so much joy in BURNING BOOKS?

sob, whimper, gasp...